Library of Congress main page will send you to our nation's collection of information - over 15 million items. You can go straight to the Digital Collectionsor American Memory Collection. DSO Kids has games, activities, and more. Ther is a time machine game and Beethoven's Baseball tha tcan be used as enrichment to strengthen music history skills. SFS Kids has a lot of great music resources. It shows the instruments of the orchestra and plays an audio file as you look at different views of the instrument. Instrument families can be used with 6th grade General Music. The Music Lab can be used for general music students to compose and arrange a piece of music. MusicTechTeachers has several games to review and test knowledge of different concepts used in reading music. Everything from naming notes on the different clefs to ties, slurs, chords, and more. It also has student work uploaded as audio files, worksheets to download, and more that can be incorporated in all elements of music class. There are scales for string's students to use along with Music Career flash cards for 7th grade general music and rhythm exercises for instrumental music. NIEHS has an alphabetical list of musical songs (National Institute of Environmental Health Safety). Posted by Matthew Plante. Kaboose Games - Interactive games such as "Boomthan" that help students to remember sounds in the correct order, experiment with different sounds, and compose rhythmic compositions posted by Matthew Plante for K-5 and by Vera Miller for 6-8.
Kaboose's Kazounds is like our old Simon Says game. Star Spangled Banner website contains the history of the Star Spangled Banner and Francis Scott Key along with details about the Battle of Fort McHenry that took place between teh Americans and the British. This battle led Francis Scott Key to write "The Defense of Fort McHenry" which is now our National Anthem. Contributed by Julie Carper for an August/September unit for Grade 5. Identifying Instruments lesson created by Sharon Smith for grades K-5. Patriotic Lesson for 4th and 5th grade by Kelly Stone
"Star Spangled Banner" Lesson Plan created by Stacey Martin for Grades 6-8. Civil War Music from the Library of Congress uses illustrations and music examples of the Civil War era posted by Vera Miller for grade 8. Civil War Music Online has lots of information on music during the Civil War.
Music in Culture Music in Culture from 1900 to the present with over 600 slides of information on the history and music of the time. Created by Ron Caviani for grades 9-12.
Music Links
Library of Congress main page will send you to our nation's collection of information - over 15 million items. You can go straight to the Digital Collectionsor American Memory Collection.DSO Kids has games, activities, and more. Ther is a time machine game and Beethoven's Baseball tha tcan be used as enrichment to strengthen music history skills.
SFS Kids has a lot of great music resources. It shows the instruments of the orchestra and plays an audio file as you look at different views of the instrument. Instrument families can be used with 6th grade General Music. The Music Lab can be used for general music students to compose and arrange a piece of music.
MusicTechTeachers has several games to review and test knowledge of different concepts used in reading music. Everything from naming notes on the different clefs to ties, slurs, chords, and more. It also has student work uploaded as audio files, worksheets to download, and more that can be incorporated in all elements of music class. There are scales for string's students to use along with Music Career flash cards for 7th grade general music and rhythm exercises for instrumental music.
NIEHS has an alphabetical list of musical songs (National Institute of Environmental Health Safety). Posted by Matthew Plante.
Kaboose Games - Interactive games such as "Boomthan" that help students to remember sounds in the correct order, experiment with different sounds, and compose rhythmic compositions posted by Matthew Plante for K-5 and by Vera Miller for 6-8.
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PK-5
General Music
Kaboose's Kazounds is like our old Simon Says game.Star Spangled Banner website contains the history of the Star Spangled Banner and Francis Scott Key along with details about the Battle of Fort McHenry that took place between teh Americans and the British. This battle led Francis Scott Key to write "The Defense of Fort McHenry" which is now our National Anthem. Contributed by Julie Carper for an August/September unit for Grade 5.
Identifying Instruments lesson created by Sharon Smith for grades K-5.
Patriotic Lesson for 4th and 5th grade by Kelly Stone
Vocal Music
"America the Beautiful" Lesson Plan created by Marieanne Cordle to go with the textbook for Grade 5.America the Beautiful from Library of Congress has a link to Pike's Peak with videos and general information aboutPike's Peak. Use this song with grades 2-5 and use the links to look at the lyrics. Posted by Kelly Triplett for grades K-5.
6-8
General Music
"Star Spangled Banner" Lesson Plan created by Stacey Martin for Grades 6-8.Civil War Music from the Library of Congress uses illustrations and music examples of the Civil War era posted by Vera Miller for grade 8.
Civil War Music Online has lots of information on music during the Civil War.
Vocal Music
Lesson plan for Irving Berlin and God Bless America posted by Jennifer Bowling for grades 6-8.Instrumental Music
9-12
General Music
Music in Culture Music in Culture from 1900 to the present with over 600 slides of information on the history and music of the time. Created by Ron Caviani for grades 9-12.Vocal Music
Instrumental Music